2009-05-04

sqbr: pretty purple pi (existentialism)
2009-05-04 09:02 am

An unfinished image

So, a couple of days ago I made a genderswapped Ronon off Stargate, inspired by [livejournal.com profile] swirlygate. Today I did a genderswapped Teyla. You might note I haven't coloured it or anything: this is because, having finished it, I feel rather conflicted and weird about it. (I inked it without fiddling with the costume etc despite the obvious flaws for similar reasons. I realise he looks like a girl :/)
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sqbr: pretty purple pi (femininity)
2009-05-04 01:35 pm
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Women's Mating Philosophy: Lessons From Slash

Via [personal profile] hl: Here, let me mansplain slash to you..

Wow. And thus I have some vague understanding of how "exotic" peoples feel when anthropologists write books about them.

Brief description: A male evolutionary psychologist "explains" slash as this weird anthropological oddity, making it sound like he stumbled on it and figured out it's significance all by himself. Said significance being: it's a way for straight women to fantasize about heterosexual sex but as an equal. Also the fact it's monogamous is NOTHING like "real gay sex".